Acknowledgments
I sing an honor song for Nancy Stauffer, my agent and friend and compatriot since 1992. What is the official gift for a twenty-fifth literary anniversary?
I also sing for Reagan Arthur, my amazing editor. This is our first book together. But it’s not the one I originally promised to her. That one is still on the way. It is contractually obligated to be on the way. But I might write and publish a different one. I don’t know. Anything could happen. So, yeah, Reagan is incredibly patient.
More songs for every person on the Little, Brown team, in the adult and young adult departments. I am the author of this book, yes, but there are dozens of people who help present it to the world. Thanks to all of them.
Some of the words in this book were published, often in radically different forms, by Hanging Loose Press, Superstition Review, Valapraiso Poetry Review, and Limberlost Press.
Praise to Wendy Hathaway, co-pilot, navigator, engineer, lifeguard, EMT, and getaway driver of FallsApart Productions.
As always, I have relied on the love, emotional support, editorial advice, and constant inspiration of Kim Barnes, Shann Ferch, Kevin Taylor, and Jess Walter.
I give thanks for Jennings, Jeide, Williams, Lee, McBride, and Quirk—the Field House Gang.
I give a twenty-drum salute to the Neurology Clinic team at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. You saved my life. You saved my brain. You saved my stories.
Special thanks to Grudge Judy, who helped me in the desert.
This book would not exist without the stories of the powerful indigenous women in my life. In particular, I want to honor Diane Tomhave, Kim Alexie, Arlene Alexie, Shelly Boyd, and LaRae Wiley.
And, forever and ever, I thank Alex Kuo, my teacher, who read one of my poems in 1987, and asked me, “What are you going to do with the rest of your life?” I said, “I don’t know.” And then he said, “I think you should write.”
About the Author
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Citation for Best First Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, Sherman Alexie is a poet, short-story writer, novelist, and performer. A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He has been an urban Indian since 1994 and lives in Seattle with his family.
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Also by Sherman Alexie
Novels
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Flight
Reservation Blues
Indian Killer
Stories
Blasphemy
War Dances
Ten Little Indians
The Toughest Indian in the World
Indian Killer
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Poetry
What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned
Face
Dangerous Astronomy
Il powwow della fine del mondo
One Stick Song
The Man Who Loves Salmon
The Summer of Black Widows
Water Flowing Home
Seven Mourning Songs for the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play
First Indian on the Moon
Old Shirts & New Skins
I Would Steal Horses
The Business of Fancydancing
Picture Books
Thunder Boy Jr.
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